The effects pedals coming out of the English shop where Tom Oakes and Horrothia FX call home have always been cool to look at, built with extreme quality and incredible-sounding, to say the least. These marvelous traditions continue today with their latest release, the Triage Discrete Transistor Pre-Amplifier, which covers Boost, Dirt and Volume at the same time. Easily ranging from clean to nasty, we are really digging this pedal…
Born of the same DNA as Horrothia’s Teeth Discrete Low-Gain Overdrive, the Triage has your boost, grit and level covered. Elements of the circuits are similar, but the Triage dwells on the wet side of the Teeth’s design. Triage is an all-transistor, ground-up Horrothia design. A JFET preamp (followed by an internal clean-level trimmer) feeds an overdrive stage made using a transistor based discrete opamp – no chip ICs here. The overdrive stage has a voicing MID PEAK switch. Off, the Triage is a full range boost. On, there is a distinct, carefully chosen mid-bump. The HF balance control is a high frequency cut or boost – dialed to full acting like a hot knife through a band mix.
Front end preamp or overdrive? It’s both. Bass and acoustic as well as electric? Sure thing. Dial it right down to use as a front end to brighten up vintage pickups? Uh huh. Wind it right up for compressed crunchy overdrive? In spades. As always, the Triage Discrete Transistor Pre-Amplifier is hand built with love, one by one, in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK. A versatile unit covering lots of ground, the Triage pumps tone and power into your rig with ease, elevating your sound and sparking new songwriting and riff creation. Thanks to Tom and Horrothia FX on yet another beautiful product – their pedals just keep getting better, be sure to check out the whole lineup on their website. Give ’em a follow on all the socials, too, right after you watch our full demo video below – cheers!
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